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May 13, 2020 · J.K. Rowling, author of the beloved Harry Potter series, created the best-selling book series of all time. But her success was not an inevitability.
- J.K. Rowling - Books, Family & Facts - Biography
In 2014, Rowling published a short story about grown-up...
- J.K. Rowling - Books, Family & Facts - Biography
Oct 25, 2024 · J.K. Rowling started writing about Harry Potter after graduating from the University of Exeter. After a brief marriage and the birth of her daughter, Rowling settled in Edinburgh and lived on public assistance between stints as a French teacher and writing.
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- J.K. Rowling is the British author who created the popular and critically acclaimed Harry Potter series (seven books published between 1997 and 200...
- In addition to the Harry Potter books, J.K. Rowling wrote such companion volumes as Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them (2001) and cowrote a stor...
- J.K. Rowling was born Joanne Rowling. After her publisher recommended she use a gender-neutral pen name, she chose J.K., adding the middle name Kat...
Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Apr 3, 2014 · In 2014, Rowling published a short story about grown-up Harry Potter and a Hogwarts school reunion on her website Pottermore. Since the site launched, she’s added more stories and information ...
Jan 31, 2019 · J. K. Rowling is the author of the hugely popular Harry Potter books. How did she come up with the complex story of the wizarding world?
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Oct 16, 2016 · One of the world’s most wealthy writers, J.K. Rowling became the first billionaire author in the wake of Harry Potter’s success.
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She writes Cormoran Strike, an ongoing crime fiction series, under the alias Robert Galbraith. Born in Yate, Gloucestershire, Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International in 1990 when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series.
